Discharging mechanism for match-machines.



1. c. DONNELLY. v DISCHARGING MECHANISM FOR MATCH MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED APR-28.1914.

1,168,863.. Patnted Jan. 18, 1916.

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J. C. DONNELLY. DISCHARGING MECHANISM FOR MATCH MACHINES.

APPLEATION FILED APR.28| I914.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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WITNESSES are JOSEPH C. DONNELLY, OF EARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DISCHARGING MECHANISM FOR MATCH-MACHINES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jam 18; 1916.

Application filed April 28, 1914. Serial No. 834,304.

To all whom it concern:

Be 1t known that I, Josnrrr C. I)()NNELLY,

a citizen of the United States, and resident This invention relates to match-discharg-.

ing mechanism for match machines, having reference more particularly to that class of discharging mechanism wherein a punch bearing head is mounted and arranged to reciprocate in relation to the successive rows of match-holding perforations of a traveling match carrier.

The object of the invention is to provide mechanism of simple and eilicient construction whereby the punch head shall be maintained in a straight path, at right angles to that of the match carrier; whereby access to the punches, for renewal or repair, may be readily had, and whereby also access to the portion of the carrier in the region of the punch head may be as readily effected.

The invention consists, primarily, in a match-discharge mechanism comprising a reciprocating carriage, a punch head pivotally mounted thereon, and locking devices for said head, the whole being so constructed and arranged that the punch head can be readily locked with its punches in operative position relatively to the match carrier, or can be as'readily unlocked to permit such head and its punches to be swung away from the said carrier.

The invention also comprises features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan View of mechanism embodying my invention, only solmuch of a match making machine being shown as is necessary to illustrate the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section partly in elevation, as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front vie of the punch head and adjuncts, Fig. 4: is a vertical section, enlarged, of the punch head and its carriage on a. plane through one of the locking pins, as on the line 44 ofFig. Fig. 5-is a detail, in perspective, of the lock ing pins for the punch head and the operating devices for said pins.

10 designates a part of the iiiiain frame of right angles to the latter.

a match making machine, and 11 a part of the endless match carrier. Thiscarrier in the form illustrated comprises plates pro vided with rows of perforations into which the ends of the match splints are forcibly inserted and thereby rigidly held. the plates being intermittently moved by suitable gearing in a manner to advance the rows of per forations, with their matches, successively to the horizontal path of a corresponding row of reciprocating ejecting punches 12.

The actuating mechanism for the match carrier includes a pair of gear Wheels'13 which mesh with gear teeth along the outer edges of the plates, said wheels being borne by an intermittently driven shaft 14 having its hearings in suitably-disposed boxes on the main frame. The longitudinal edges of the carrier, adjacent the ejecting punches, are supported and guided-by vertically-disposed guide'members 15 which are adjustably secured to themain-frame by bolt and slot connections 15'.

According to my invention the row of punches is carried by a head 16 which is hingedly connected with a reciprocating carriage 17, and means are provided whereby the said head can be readily locked with its punches in operative position, or can be as readily unlocked in order toper mit the punch head and its punches to be swung away from the match carrier, as desired.

The carriage in its preferred construction frame, directly in rear of the match carrier,

so that the carriage may be reciprocated at H The carriage body is provided with rearwardly-extending lugs 21 which are connected by rods 22 with rocker-arms 23 on a rock-shaft 24 journaled in boxes on the main frame. This shaft is equipped with a lever 25 which is operatively connected with and timely oscillated by a suitable cam on the main shaft of the match machine, as usual. v r

The punch head 16 in its preferred construction includes a substantially L-shaped body which when inactive position overhangs the shaft 14: and rests upon a'wall on the body carriage 17; The row of punches is mounted in an angle bar 26 which is detachably secured to the forward depending portion of the head by screws 27 or other suitable means, the punches being properly spaced and positioned to register with succeeding rows of perforations of the match carrier. The body of the punch-head is provided with rearwardly-extending arms 28 Wl1iCll preferably merge with strengthening as swung rearward. The head is preferably furnished on its upper side with a suitable handle 30.

'The forward wall of the punch head is provided with apertured depending lugs 31 which, when the head is in down or active positiom'are seated in vertical recesses in the contiguous end of the carriage body with the apertures 32 of the lugs in. registry with transverse perforations 33 in said body. Slidingly fitted to these perforations are pins 34:, which are movable into or out of the apertures of the lugs so as to lock or release the forward portion of the head as desired. These pins thus constitute bolts which by virtue of their close relation to the forward end of the head insure the iirm and rigid locking of the punch-bearing pen tion of the to the carriage, which carriage and punch head are therefore reciprocatcd as a unit in a straight path at right angles to that of the match carrier.

Mounted to slide horizontally in a guide way 35 at the rear of the carriage is a bar 36 which has formed on its under side at its respective ends inclined cam ribs 37 which enter corresponding cam grooves 38 in enlargcd outer ends of. the pins 34:, whereby longitudinal movement of the bar 36 in one .(lirection retracts the pins from the apertin-ed lugs 31 to unlocl thehead, and similar movement of the bar in the opposite direc- Ojt?(3t5 the. pins into the lugs to lock n the upper face of the slide bar 3! with which mesh the d to efiect either the retrac posr e .n'ogection of the locking pins I tion or the as desired. The .lock controlling handle being located at therear of the carriage is readily accessible to the attendant.

My invention is not limited to the details of construction herein shown and described as the structure may be modified without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1. In discharge mechanism for match machines, the combination with a progressively movable \carrier for successive rows of matches, of a carriage reciprocative at right angles to-the path of travel of said carrier, means for. actuating said carriage, a matchejecting 'punch head hingedly mounted on said carriage and movable therewith toward and from the match carrier, and means for locking'said head in operative position on the carriage.

2. In discharge mechanism for match machines, the combination with a progressively movable carrier for successive rows of matches, of a carriage reciprocative at right angles to the path of travel of said carrier, means for actuating said carriage, a head hingedly mounted at its rearward end on saidcarriage and movable therewith toward and from the match carrier, match-ejecting punches projecting outward from the forward part of the said head, and means for locking the forward part of the head to the carriage.

In discharge mechanism forinatch machines, a reciprocating carriage, a. head hingedly mounted at its rearward end on said carriage and having at its forward end locking members, punches projecting outward from the forward part of said head, locking-pins extending from front to rear of said carriage adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said locking'members, and means for actuating said pins.

4. In discharge mechanism for match Illa.- chines, a' reciprocating carriage, ahead hingedly mounted at its rearward end on said carriage and having at its forward end locking members, locking pins extending from front to rear of said carriage adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said locking members, a gear rack bar having a cam connection with said pins, and a manually-operated gear element engaged with said bar.

JOSEPH C. DONNELLY.

Witnesses:

V. A. JOHNSTON, SABI'NA PARKS. 

